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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don’t usually mind if the present is crap if it’s given with good intentions. It’s the shit ones with absolutely no thought that piss me off.
I had a strange tea set once. A single cup, saucer and spoon in a battered box that looked like it had been doing the rounds for a while (I’m assuming it had been regifted numerous times) and on the bottom in a faded and clearly very old handwritten price tag it said 99p
So I’m guessing it was a charity shop rehash.
It was more an insult than anything. You had to see it to understand what I mean
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My ex bought "me" a three piece suite of his choosing and thought I'd be thrilled.
A colleagues husband told her he'd hidden her gift in the garage, she got really excited and on Christmas morning was not thrilled to open a tumble dryer  . Yet another colleague bought both her daughter in laws an iron.  |
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I don't think I've ever had a bad one. Although people buy me wine and neither of us drink it. To get through all the bottles we end up just using it in cooking 
I've made someone a hamper before, lots of personalised and homemade bits but she wasn't appreciative of it. She gave me the EMPTY hamper box back and kept the contents (that she didn't like?). One less person to buy for this year. |
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"I don't think I've ever had a bad one. Although people buy me wine and neither of us drink it. To get through all the bottles we end up just using it in cooking
I've made someone a hamper before, lots of personalised and homemade bits but she wasn't appreciative of it. She gave me the EMPTY hamper box back and kept the contents (that she didn't like?). One less person to buy for this year. "
That's weird about the hamper when it was such a personal gift. Even if they did not like some of the stuff, I can't see how someone can be so rude  |
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"I don't think I've ever had a bad one. Although people buy me wine and neither of us drink it. To get through all the bottles we end up just using it in cooking
I've made someone a hamper before, lots of personalised and homemade bits but she wasn't appreciative of it. She gave me the EMPTY hamper box back and kept the contents (that she didn't like?). One less person to buy for this year. "
Some people just don't understand the thought and effort that goes into something like that. I choose who I give hand made things to very carefully. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bottles of wine or other alcohol….I don’t drink, never have. Worst insult was last year when my own sister got me a bottle of rose….yeah we aren’t close and you can tell.
Lily "
I feel you, I don’t drink either, and got a bottle of champagne for my 50th birthday. I held on to it, til a friend got to her 10th wedding anniversary and handed it over. I’m sure they enjoyed it immensely
Don’t think I’ve got any bad Christmas presents, but I do have ones I wouldn’t use. Like a really expensive Reed diffuser, that I’ve had for two years, unopened, because I have cats and Reed diffusers are toxic if chewed, I don’t think they would but am not taking the chance. Cats are curious and it only takes one bite |
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"I don't think I've ever had a bad one. Although people buy me wine and neither of us drink it. To get through all the bottles we end up just using it in cooking
I've made someone a hamper before, lots of personalised and homemade bits but she wasn't appreciative of it. She gave me the EMPTY hamper box back and kept the contents (that she didn't like?). One less person to buy for this year.
That's weird about the hamper when it was such a personal gift. Even if they did not like some of the stuff, I can't see how someone can be so rude "
I can see it and often do. Different topic, and related to charity hampers for service users, but when someone gets FREE food handed to them, and they pick out what they won’t eat, and tell you to take it back because they don’t like it, you got to wonder why they asked for a hamper in the first place if so picky? If you can’t afford to shop for yourself for extras, then just keep quiet and be thankful that someone cared! If it was up to me, they’d not get another. |
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The most hilarious one I had, and it happened twice, was to be given the exact same present I had given them the year before. They obviously did not even take any notice who it was from. All I said was thank you and it does look familiar  |
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Is this wrong to say?...was I ungrateful?...
My ex proudly bought me an Olympus camera...
Not a blokes ..twiddly knob SLR with most of the bells and whistles that a nerd needs...but a Olympus trip .. glorified instamatic...I smiled and said thank you darling ......grrr  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The standard dreaded present every man hates….Lynx gift set and socks wtf.
Nothing wrong with these 
I got a mechanical fishtank why I don't know  "
Can always measure your cock beside the Lynx can snap a pic then bin it. Rotten shit. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"The standard dreaded present every man hates….Lynx gift set and socks wtf.
Nothing wrong with these
I got a mechanical fishtank why I don't know
Can always measure your cock beside the Lynx can snap a pic then bin it. Rotten shit."
Do they do holiday size Lynx cans?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The standard dreaded present every man hates….Lynx gift set and socks wtf.
Nothing wrong with these
I got a mechanical fishtank why I don't know
Can always measure your cock beside the Lynx can snap a pic then bin it. Rotten shit.
Do they do holiday size Lynx cans? "
Smirnoff miniature mate |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am not joking my partner got me a toilet seat not once but twice as he broke the first one.
Two years ago he got me a tool kit, but he did get me a first aid kit as well.
I have no need of a tool kit. |
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Knit your own Nativity sceane. Yes, I knit, but not relidguios (sp). I'd rather spend my time knitting something I want or need. And yes I found out she had
re gifted it. I was 3rd in line for it. |
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"I am not joking my partner got me a toilet seat not once but twice as he broke the first one.
Two years ago he got me a tool kit, but he did get me a first aid kit as well.
I have no need of a tool kit. "
I need a tool kit |
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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago
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I once bought my mum an ironing board, hoofed it all the way across town under my arm and got a taxi home with it pleased as punch. Even wrapped it into a surfboard like look. Only after a few months did I realise I'd bought her an ironing board for Christmas. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Knit your own Nativity sceane. Yes, I knit, but not relidguios (sp). I'd rather spend my time knitting something I want or need. And yes I found out she had
re gifted it. I was 3rd in line for it. "
Wow nothing says someone cares like a regifted crap present! |
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I did get a bit pissed off at how my youngster was squandering money, so one day I happened to rescue a pair of Chelsea boots from the bin, took them to the cobblers, had them resoled and heeled, and gave them back to him gift wrapped on Christmas morning. |
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Mine was from the ex hubby. I’d commented that I could do with a shopping trolley to help with the shopping. The supermarket was just over a mile away so we’d walk there and back. At the time I was 21, Christmas Day I opened up…….. a 4 wheel push along shopping trolley that you see pensioners using!!!
He was so proud, but me…. I literally sat and cried |
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Try something that you dont wear would never wear that was my present gifted by my exes parents.
I had the manners to say thankyou and except the gift off them.
But the first place those bloody Y fronts went was the bin.
Well the next visit we had my ex told everything to her parents, That when we got home that I had thrown them in the bin without first opening the house door.
Well what could I do to all that comment just say the truth |
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"My ex bought "me" a three piece suite of his choosing and thought I'd be thrilled.
A colleagues husband told her he'd hidden her gift in the garage, she got really excited and on Christmas morning was not thrilled to open a tumble dryer . Yet another colleague bought both her daughter in laws an iron. "
Depends on the reciever I suppose.
I bought my daughter a rechargeable vacuum cleaner for her birthday and she was overjoyed. |
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just remembered another...
my mother went to Italy one year clost to Christmas, and fetched me back a plastic gondola lamp, which plugged in to the mains...
it was supposed to play a tune, (oh sole mio..... just one cornetto, give it to me") supposed to light up with pretty coloured bulbs in the windows of the cabin part which covered the electronic workings parts, and it was meant to spin around slowly on it's base.
We plugged it in, it flashed and banged and spun around fast, jumped off the shelf, over-heated by the bulbs, which melted the sides and base of the boat, and made a burn mark in the carpet, while the tune sounded like a demented tom cat being drowned till it stopped.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I got cutlery one year from my ex husband (we were still married then!) And my birthday 6 days later, i got a plastic drawer insert in which to keep them!!
(Not one person ever asked why i divorced him....) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My ex husband bought me a tan coloured 'coat' which would have looked perfect on a green grocer in the 1940's.
NBVN x
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Quite popular and in fashion now called overshirts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My ex husband bought me a tan coloured 'coat' which would have looked perfect on a green grocer in the 1940's.
NBVN x
Quite popular and in fashion now called overshirts "
Oh no mine was not a shirt style it had a silver zip and no body shape...hideous
NBVN x |
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A pair of dead man's swimming trunks from my auntie when I was about 18..she was stinking rich but tight as fuck..we always got recycled Xmas presents..her first husband had died that year..so I got his swimming trunks..he didn't actually die in them as far as I know.. |
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By *imbo59seMan
over a year ago
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My sister (and her hubby) gave me a wooden book holder (couldn't call it a book case) that he'd made. It was crap for anything other than firewood.....which it did become! Still, at least you could say that it's the thought that counts.
A few years later, she gave me a collection of artisan mustards..... I don't eat mustard, never have done!!! |
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knew he loved his football. She bought him a Sunderland shirt thinking he'd love it, didn't realise he was Newcastle daft 